My Sister Collects Porcelain Cats
January 7th 2009 21:00
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My sister collects porcelain cats. So what? I can hear you say.
It’s a big deal to me as my sister is not a cat person. She prefers dogs to cats any day. When she sees people walking their dogs she will ooh and ah but if she sees a cat she might look at it but she doesn’t feel particularly inclined to stroke it or to say how cute it is. She almost appears to be oblivious to them.
But you wouldn’t be able to tell this from the way she decorates her place. She has porcelain cats everywhere. Big ones, small ones, Siamese and Persians. She even has a black cat book end. Her favourite is the blue-eyed white Persian. She likes to put a hat on it. She is particularly fond of white figurines. I don’t get this. How can a non-cat person have so many cat figurines in their place?
“It’s because there’s not many cute dog figurines around,” she explains. Hmmm. She has a point there. Or maybe I’m biased because I like cats.
It’s the same with my parents. They’re not big on any animal but they also have lots of cat figurines.
My ex-neighbour was another one of those cat figurine collectors. The difference is she loves cats and ornate objects so it stands to reason why she has them. She has a glass lion that kind of looks greenish. She also has a glass cat that changes colour according to where you place it in her room. I have literally walked across her lounge room with it in my hand, watching it go from pink to green and then from green back to pink again. This figurine was a gift from a friend and my ex-neighbour has no idea why it changes colour.
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